

Dr. David Baum (he/him)
Professor of Botany
Phone: (608) 265 – 5385
Email: dbaum@wisc.edu
Twitter: @baobabbaum
Research Interests: Evolutionary and systematic theory; plant evolution and developmental genetics; origin of life; pollination biology
Praful Gagrani (he/him)
Graduate Student – Physics
Email: praful.gagrani@gmail.com
Research Interests: Energy, information, and the emergence of life
Tymofii Sokolskyi (he/him)
Graduate Student – Astrobiology and Evolution
Email: sokolskyi@wisc.edu
Research Interests: evolution-like dynamics of fatty acid vesicles; origins of autocatalysis.
Website: https://www.tymsokolskyi.com/
Twitter: @globalglobule
Pavani Ganju (she/her)
Graduate Student – Botany
Email: pganju@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Origin and early evolution of life
Camille Evin (she/her)
Graduate Student – Chemistry and Biochemistry
Email: evin@wisc.edu
Research Interests: Origin and early evolution of life
Esau Allen (he/him)
Undergraduate Student – Biomedical Engineering
Email: eallen22@wisc.edu

Keeley Kuru (she/her)
Undergraduate Student – Biochemistry
Email: kkuru@wisc.edu
Ronan Montgomery-Taylor
Undergraduate Student – Botany
Email: montgomeryta@wisc.edu